MrConceit

I disagree with the guy totally, but yes they are. Though 15/30 is a lot looser yet than 10/20. But 10/20 (depends on the site obviously) is still pretty loose.

Yeah that's pretty horrid to lose that. Though usually KK isn't gonna think of himself as behind there.And yeah, you're exactly right on win percents.TT on that flop is exactly 99.9 percent vs .1 percent to KK.

If you think I proved your point for you that's good for your self-esteem and I'm happy.He's young and trying to improve to be in the best few in the world. What part of this do you not understand? If you look also at what Greenstein has on Gus, he also has managed to come BACK from huge deficits in single sessions. The best way to improve to the best in the world is to PLAY against the best. He obviously isn't broke, and isn't a fish in the big game. What's wrong with testing and improving your skills against the best? If you want to reference a site then take all it says.Quote from Gre

Laugh, as usual a lot of people have taken care of your idiocy. But I do have one more question.Why do you think that the people responding to you only play .5/1?I play 15/30 limit, that other guy plays 1k max-buyin NL, Smash plays whatever the hell he feels like, and that's just to name 3. We just saw wrong stupid sh1t posted and corrected it. Just because we have an opinion on .5/1 or low limit poker doesn't mean that's all we play. And even if we did, we'd still know a lot more about it than you, who hasn't even tried playing it.I have played .5/1, which is more than you can say. But I

YOU read Greenstein's website. Gus gets higher marks than 60-75 percent of the people he talks about. As an all-around, not just NL tourneys.http://www.barrygreenstein.com/ghansen.htmCompare that to the various others he talks about on the left.Only a few people are given as obiously better than Gus. Perhaps Ivey, Negreanu, Reese, Brunson.His lowest rating is steam control - a 5. And take this in the context that he's been playing high end for 2-3 years tops. Give the man a break.

This is too ridiculous and funny. R u f0r r3al man? Saying any one type of poker is the only real poker is only about the stupidest thing ever. And that isn't even addressing your other foolish contentions. Oh laugh, why am I even bothering, others have addressed this for the most part, but I guess I'll finish.The amount you're playing for (as long as it's real money) makes no difference. If everybody calls with poor pot odds or improbable draws not getting correct odds -- you make money. Regardless of whether they suck out that single time or not. If they don't take it seriously becaus

Oh, I know there's no prior card. The thing is the "prior card" I was meaning was the first card of the flop, vs the second card of the flop, and so on and so forth.It's like for figuring a flush draw over two cards you do 9/47+(9/46*38/47) which gives you 35 percent.The reason you do that is because you have to multiply hitting on the river by the times you missed on the turn. Do you see what I mean?So a way to calculate (oversimplified, but getting close) whether you'd hit a set by the river is:2/50+2/49*48/50+2/48*47/49+2/47*46/48+2/46*45/47Now before you go WHAT THE HELL it's so long, al

Yeah I think your problem is you're not taking into account the possibility of having hit an A or J on the prior card, you can't just multiple times 5 (for cards). Plus you're not taking into account at all of the 77 hitting a set (or much less likely a straight).

You're not being bothersome. But just figuring the obvious outs isn't that exact for this kinda thing. If you just want to know how various hands stand up vs each other allin preflop then check something like twodimes or a similar calculator.In the example WRT gave you, when he calculated that it was 10/47 then you can look at it like 37:10 (the other cards that don't make your hand of the 47) which is 3.7:1 (against). But again, trying to do this kind of method for 87 of hearts vs black aces would be rather difficult. If you just want to know the odds of X hand beating Y hand, go to http

I don't think that there is ever a time to fold rockets preflop. Sorry, just don't. I also don't ever see a time to throw away rolled up aces in stud on third street. I know that Hellmuth tried to cite a time you could do this, but no. If you lose with them, you lose with them, it happensYou can think that all you like. It's been pretty well documented that there exist (damned rare, and you aren't going to run into them in your normal lifetime, but dammit it is POSSIBLE) bubble situations where folding AA would be correct.Dumbed down example is you have 100k left, Bigstack has 7 mil, 4 people

There are multiple ways to figure this out, just like most math questions. :)Possibly the easiest is jogsxyz's method of doing it backwards.Another way is Abbaddabba's which certainly works, but to me seems complicated.I prefer my 3rd way.To explain it in words first, you do first the obvious 15/47 you have to hit on turn, then you add that to your chance of hitting on the river TIMES your chance of having missed on the turn.In math it is:15/47+15/46*32/47 which is 54 percent.For flush draws it works the same to get you the correct answer of 35 percent.9/47+9/46*38/47I didn't bother putting i

You win the overall award for quality and speed of beatage. You got smacked. I especially like your final paragraph.Glad you could still mix it up at the end, very nice. You want people to make bad calls, obviously, but that kinda crap all at once just kicks the sh1t out of you.*shiver*

I agree with all of your decisions except 2. To me it's just far too likely that Mr. Coldcaller has KQ suited. That's such the standard coldcall hand. Just the combo of you possibly being behind and you not having the 9h in your hand just seems so ugly to me. I utterly understand trying to get rid of UTG+1 in case he has AK, but I don't like this spot.Yay, now I don't have to write my answers. You did all the work to your own questions.

Betting here is obligatory, I agree with that. But I'm not so sure of your claim that any AKo would have capped preflop. I don't always. If I raise with AKo and am 3bet I tend to give them a bit of credit for having a solid PP and often don't cap preflop. If there are a lot of other people still in that have limped/coldcalled THEN I almost always cap because I figure I'll be winning more than my fair share, but HU or vs 2 people? Not so much.If you're checkraised on the flop, you then 3bet? To prove what? Your manly inability to lay down KK vs an ace pair? I mean if you have some read o

Hah, that does seem to be one advantage cash game players have over tourney players. Obviously if poker is their only income they have to be reporting something, but what exactly they report is the question.Also, as a question of my own: If someone is (for example) a Canadian citizen but flies out to Vegas a lot, what is their tax situation? Or a Canadian/UK citizen living short-term in Vegas, what is the tax situation? I'm curious.

OH, that's what your avatar is. I saw that pic a while ago online (a friend told me to check it out) and it was amazingly hilarious. But I couldn't tell that your avatar was that pic. Until you pointed it out I couldn't read the sign.

They're basically right dude. Your point that .05./10 isn't totally real poker has _some_ small validity in how it plays. But it's still 10-20 times what play money tables are. And fish and recreational players are a ton of what poker is about. That's what you want to play with anyway. .05./.10 teaches you to play in uber-loose/passive tables. You could try to say the same thing with play money, but the people don't just call trying to hit their garbage draws, they raise and cap because that's action play and they're having fun.

I agree with most of your answers, and do agree that raising is good and probably best here. What I question is that it will "get rid of a few limpers". When does a single raise ever make someone who limped fold? Somebody else said something similar and acted like they SHOULD fold. It's rarely correct to limp and fold to 1 more bet. Do you do it? Do you see your opponents do it?

[Edit]My apologies. I didn't read the farther down post saying this was specifically for loose-passive LL tables. I included some options based on loose/passive, and I'm not gonna rewrite the whole thing. Feel free to skip my entire post if you want. :)For all questions, rank your options among fold, call(check), or raise.1. you're UTG and you hold 3 3 - Fold unless you're on a loose passive table, then call. Never raise here.2. 3 limpers to you in CO, you hold Q T - This is close between calling and raising. I think calling is slightly better imo. Folding this is horrid (I a

It depends on what you're talking about. Most authors agree it's far far worse to fold a possible winner than to pay off 1 more bet. Harman has that in her section on SS2 as does just about every other author. I'd never considered it that important a stat to look at really.Ok, just checked. At my like 18.5k hands at my current limit I'm at 52 percent. I don't think I'll be stopping paying off people anytime soon. I'm pretty comfortable at about this level. What I feel my leak is, is not folding the turn more. But I typically feel that if you're already at the river (I'm speaking essent

Thanks for the link -- sort of. Now that I looked at it, I HATE the new box pictures. I especially hate the new Boo-Berry. He looks like the freakin' Stay Puff Marshmellow Man. I guess I didn't remember the werewolf too well because he was discontinued in '82. I was old enough to have tried it but I have no memory of him. But man, half those new pics are horrid.Ah well, I guess I've graduated beyond monster-cereal (maybe?).Thanks for the link.

I know what you mean -- But this IS an "A" game for uberloose very passive tables. You don't just wait for AA/KK/AK suited. You limp it up with small and mid PPs and suited connectors and Ax suited. If you don't flop a strong draw, a set, or a ridiculously rare two pair/trips you fold the flop. But the pots where you do flop something solid, you stand to potentially win a monster pot from the calling stations.Online, typically you only see tables like this at .5/1. But sometimes tables morph into this in random places. I've seen tables in 15/30 and 2/4 and 3/6 where suddenly like 7 or mo

Yeah, my friend CLAIMED he had a 55 BB pot on 3/6, but he hasn't shown me the hand history. I don't know if I believe him. :twisted:

I dunno why I wrote so lengthily and vehemently. Sorry.Though I do think it's best to teach new people to figure pot odds one card at a time, not two.

You need to clarify this stuff. A four-flush with 9 outs is only 4:1 after the turn. On the flop it's 35% to win, or slightly better than 2:1 odds against. An open-ender is about 32% to win after the flop. It is slightly less than 20% to win after the turn (about 18.5). Odds against making your hand are 2:1 on flop, and slightly more than 4:1 after turn card. Pot should be $10 for you to call $2 after turn, but after flop, it only has to be $3 for you to call $1 (and it's not heads-up action.. in other words, make sure 2 or more people are involved in the hand.)On the contrary, I don't